Doubled for Friday, September 20, 2024
One picture, one hidden three-word chain. The first two words make a familiar phrase, the last two make another, and the middle word belongs to both. New to the game? Read how to play first.
Hints
Open them one at a time. Each one gives away a little more than the last.
Hint 1
The answer is 4 words long, with 6, 4, 2 and 4 letters.
Hint 2
The shared word - the one that belongs to both phrases - has 4 letters and starts with B.
Hint 3
The first phrase is 2 words, the second is 3, and they overlap on one of them.
Hint 4
A playground climbing frame, then bullion in a vault.
The answer
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Reveal the answer
Monkey Of Gold
Monkey bars and Bars of gold, joined on Bars.
Monkey bars
Monkey bars are the horizontal ladder of a playground climbing frame that children swing along hand over hand.
Bars of gold
Bars of gold are gold cast into ingots, the bullion stacked in a bank vault.
How players did
Across 1,103 plays, 52% got the whole answer in one guess, 18% solved it without a miss, 14% got there after at least one wrong guess, 14% used a hint or finished on their last chance, and 3% did not get it.
This puzzle ran on September 20, 2024 and September 20, 2025.